Eric at Lucii.org on 1 Jul 2012 11:08:07 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Rip a Protected Audio CD


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On 07/01/2012 09:29 AM, Casey Bralla wrote:
> So I legally bought this CD at a garage sale and am trying to rip it to my music collection (like I do with all my other CDs)
> 
> Unfortunately, while I was able to play the disk in my car stereo without any trouble, my system does not even recognize the disk as an audio disk. cdparnoia reports:
> 
> 004: Unable to read table of contents header
> 
> Unable to open disc.  Is there an audio CD in the drive?
> 
> 
> I've tried several other rippers, but to no avail.  It looks like they corrupted the table of contents.
> 
> 
> Anybody have any suggestions about how to rip this disk?
> 

I'm not an expert in this area but I'm wondering if it's related to the Sony
"rootkit" protection scheme.  Is it a Sony disk?  What software are you using?
I seem to recall encountering this problem many years ago (somewhere around
SuSE 5 or 6) but I have no idea how, or even if, I solved it.

Eric
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